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Antifouling printing sheet

a printing sheet and anti-fouling technology, applied in the direction of film/foil adhesives, instruments, transportation and packaging, etc., can solve the problems of reducing the initial anti-fouling performance, deteriorating the clearness, and causing the decrease of photocatalytic activity

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-12-03
UBE NITTO KASEI CO LTD
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Benefits of technology

The present invention provides an anti-fouling printing sheet that has a self-cleaning property based on a hydrophilic action for a long period of time. The sheet can be used for printing images using a printer or copying machine for domestic or office use. The sheet has a transparent support sheet with a hydrophilic material, such as a photocatalyst-active layer, on one side and a printing surface on the opposite side. The sheet may also have a UV-blocking layer. The invention also provides an anti-fouling printed product and an anti-fouling printed object with the sheet.

Problems solved by technology

However, since the printed product disclosed in Patent Document 1 is formed by printing an image on a support and over-coating the printed support with an photoactivity-intercepting layer and a photoactive layer, the printed image may be blotted by an organic solvent for use in the coating process, or blotted during a heat drying step, or may be deteriorated in clearness through evaporation of an employed ink.
However, in many cases, a small number of printed products of different images must be provided, and a coating step corresponding to each image must be performed, which is very cumbersome.
However, the method disclosed in Patent Document 2 has a potential drawback in which a sublimated ink remains in the anti-fouling layer, resulting in a decrease in initial anti-fouling performance, since sublimation transfer printing is performed from the anti-fouling layer.
Another potential drawback is a decrease in photocatalytic activity caused by gradual bleeding out of the sublimated ink.
In addition, since the anti-fouling layer is formed as a porous layer, the low-temperature sol-gel method must be employed, and the printing method is limited to sublimation transfer printing.
Thus, the disclosed method is technically restricted and cannot be widely applied to printing processes of general purposes.
However, the printed products disclosed in Patent Document 1 or 2 exhibiting anti-fouling property induced by a photocatalyst have the aforementioned drawbacks.
Thus, at present, there have not yet been developed useful printing sheets which can receive an anti-fouling treatment that does not affect printing layers of a small number of printed products of various types or which can be widely applied to general printing processes.
However, since the pigment-coating polymeric compound itself has poor light fastness to UV light, color of the printed products gradually fades as weather resistance of the coating polymer decreases.
Generally, these supports have poor weather-resistance, which is not lower than that of the aforementioned pigment, and are gradually deteriorated by UV light, water, oxygen, etc.
For example, in the case of PET, a considerable drop in strength is known to be induced after yellowing.
Although such plastic films effectively prevent a drastic drop in support strength, prevention of yellowing to a practical level cannot be attained.
At present, there has not been developed a surface of printed products which can prevent fouling occurring through these mechanisms.
That is, a satisfactory anti-fouling surface function has not been developed.

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example 1

Formation of Film with a Photocatalytic Layer

(1) Formation of Photoactivity-Intercepting Layer

[0159]Under nitrogen, methyl isobutyl ketone (424.0 g), methyl methacrylate (200.0 g), and methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (23.5 g) were added to a 1 L separable flask, and the mixture was heated to 60° C. To the resultant solution, azobisisobutyronitrile (1.9 g) dissolved in methyl isobutyl ketone was added dropwise, to thereby initiate polymerization, and the reaction system was stirred for 30 hours, to thereby produce organic solution (a).

[0160]To a solution of titanium tetraisopropoxide (35.55 g) dissolved in ethyl cellosolve (70.02 g), a mixture of 60% by mass nitric acid (5.94 g), water (2.14 g), and ethyl cellosolve (27.39 g) was gradually added dropwise under stirring. The reaction mixture was stirred at 30° C. for 4 hours, to thereby produce solution (b).

[0161]Subsequently, the solution (b), ethyl cellosolve, and aluminum nitrate (heterometal compound) were mixed such that the a...

example 2

[0170]On a PET-film-based color laser sheet (OHP sheet V516, for Docu Centre Color f360) of a size of A4 standard, the same photoactivity-intercepting layer and photocatalyst-active layer each having the same thickness were formed by use of the same compositions as employed in Example 1, to thereby produce an anti-fouling printing sheet.

[0171]The same image as printed in Example 1 was printed on the printing sheet by means of a laser printer (Docu Centre Color f360, product of Fuji Xerox).

[0172]In a manner similar to that of Example 1, each printed product was affixed on a utility pole installed along a national road, and fouling feature and image deterioration were observed one year after affixation. Through observation, the printing layer 9 underwent virtually no staining and the original image was maintained clear.

example 3

[0173]A coating liquid containing an HALS-hybridized UV-absorbing coating agent (UW series UV-G301, product of Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd.) (100 parts by mass) and an isocyanate hardening agent (Desmodur N3200, product of Sumitomo Bayer Urethane Co., Ltd.) (12 parts by mass) was applied to a surface of an ink-jet OHP sheet serving as a transparent support sheet 2 shown in FIG. 1 (JP-OHP10A, PET film base with an ink-receiving layer, product of Sanwa Supply) on the side opposite the ink-receiving layer, followed by thermal cross-linking, to thereby form a UV-blocking film (thickness: 5 μm). The photoactivity-intercepting layer and the photocatalyst-active layer each having the same thickness as employed in Example 1 were provided, to thereby produce an anti-fouling printing sheet. In a manner similar to that of Example 1, an anti-fouling printed product having a photocatalyst-active layer produced from the printing sheet was affixed on a utility pole installed along a national road, an...

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Abstract

The present invention provides an anti-fouling printing sheet, characterized by including a transparent support sheet, a hydrophilic anti-fouling layer provided on one side of the support sheet, and a printing surface provided on the opposite side of the support sheet; and an anti-fouling printed product and printed object having an image printed thereon. The anti-fouling printing sheet, printed product, and printed object exhibit a self-cleaning property based on a photocatalytic action for a long period of time.

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TECHNICAL FIELD[0001]The present invention relates to an anti-fouling printing sheet having a self-cleaning property based on a hydrophilic action.BACKGROUND ART[0002]Photocatalyst activation material, which is a hydrophilic material and exhibits a surface-cleaning effect based on super-hydrophilicity, is envisaged to exhibit a so-called anti-fouling effect; i.e., to keep surfaces of signboards or the like clean without performing a maintenance procedure.[0003]In relation to printed products which are directly exposed to the atmosphere or exhibited for a long period, there has been proposed a weather-resistant printed product having a laminate structure which has at least a printing layer, and a protective layer including a photoactivity intercepting layer made of an inorganic substance for intercepting photoactivity and an anti-fouling layer exhibiting photoactivity, the printing layer and the protective layer being sequentially stacked (see Patent Document 1).[0004]Even when stain...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): B32B5/00B32B9/00
CPCB41M5/502B41M5/504Y10T428/24851Y10T428/266Y10T428/24802B41M5/506Y10T428/31786Y10T428/31504
Inventor NAKASONE, TAKAYOSHINAKAYAMA, NORIHIROTANAKA, SHINJITANAKA, NAOKITAKAMI, KAZUYUKI
Owner UBE NITTO KASEI CO LTD
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